Trump says what a lot of people think

[Dill]

(08-08-2019, 05:34 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Example off the top of my head: Trump calls MS13 gang members animals. Liberals claim Trump is racist for calling illegal immigrants animals.

If I remember, we had a thread on the "animals" comment, which occurred in a transition in discussion from MS-13 to immigration in general.

If there are many other examples of Trump's racist comments or behavior, then Liberals getting it wrong once would not mean Trump is not the racist he is made out to be.

He is still the guy who characterized illegal Mexican immigrants as "rapists" bringing crime and drugs to the US, and described those fleeing the triangle as an "invasion" bringing disease.

To show Liberals have it wrong, you need to show why his support of birtherism is not racism, or his editorial on the Central Park five, or his refusal to rent to black tenants back in the '70s, the seemingly instinctive "go back to where you came from" directed at four congresswomen of color. Seems like a pattern. 

If Trump is "unflitered" and says what a lot of people think, this looks like the kind of implicit or unconcious racism so often the subject of discussion nowdays. It just pops out consistently in moments when judgment involves non-white subjects, not white.

Do liberals have that wrong?